Leo Varadkar Quotes

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

We must dare to invent the future

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.